Fudge former



S. MUSICA FUDGE FORMER Dec. 4, 1956 Filed Jan. 14, 1954 FIG.

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8 j 7 w m 0 2 \2 2 6 z w INVENTOR. STEPHEN MUSICA United States Patent FUDGE FORMER I Stephen Musica, Little Falls, N. Y. Application January 14, 1954, Serial No. 404,065

1 Claim. (Cl. 107-19) This invention relates to the making of fudge from the readily available boxes of quick fudge mix and has for its principal object the provision of a mold or former which when dis-assembled may be packed or stored in a very small space and when assembled forms an open frame for making fudge blocks of uniform size and thickness.

In the making of fudge it is common to pour the hot confection into one or more dishes to cool, generally using pie plates. One objection to this practice is the fact that when the fudge cools and is severed by parallel cuts at right angles to each other, the pieces are far from uniform, all the edge or peripheral pieces having a sloping bottom and these pieces being of widely different sizes.

The present former avoids all of these disadvantages, is readily taken apart and put together, preferably is made of light weight material of such characteristics that the fudge will not stick to the mold, and the pieces may readily be cleaned, the design being such that the four bars or pieces of the open frame are identical and are so designed as conveniently to be formed of styrene or other plastics in automatic molding machines. If desired the bars or members of the hollow frame may be of glass or of metal or of wood covered with a suitable coating which might be an enamel or a covering such as teflon which has remarkable non-sticking qualities.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side view of a bar.

Figure 2 is an edge view of a bar.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the assembled fudge former.

The fudge former, denoted as a whole by the numeral 10, is formed of four bars, members, or pieces 11, each having parallel wide sides 12 and 13, also narrow faces 14 and 15 which form either the top or the bottom of the mold or former. The face 14 extends from one end 15 to the other end 16 unbroken except for the plurality of indentations 17 which are exactly opposite similar notches 18 in the face 15, here shown as five in number, dividing the space between the notches 20 and 21 into six equal divisions, such space corresponding to the inside margin of the fudge former.

The projections 22 and 23 between the notches 20 and 21 and the proximate ends 15 or 16 of the bar 11 are preferably of greater length than the width of the notches, this making for convenient assembly or disassembly of the fudge former or mold. Preferably all four of the corners 26 are rounded. The notches 20 and 21 extend exactly half of the depth of the bar and are of a width equal to the thickness of the material of the bar so that the engagement is snug but permitting of easy assembly and separation. The material of the bar is of any suitable material unaffected by the hot fudge and to which the fudge will not stick, this making for ease in cleaning. The preferable material is styrene, this plastic coming from the molds with surfaces resembling those of fine porcelain and making the bars light, strong and resistant to the temperatures that would be encountered in the making of fudge.

In use the homemaker prepares the fudge in the usual way, according to the directions on the package, then assembles the four bars 11 to form the hollow frame 10 and lays it on one or more pieces 25 of waxed paper, preferably resting the waxed paper on other paper which might well be a newspaper, the purpose being to avoid any tendency of the waxed paper to stick to the table top when the heated fudge mixture is poured inside the fudge former frame and upon the waxed paper. The fudge mixture becomes cool in a few minutes forming a block of confection which fills the frame to its top and is therefore of uniform thickness. The block of fudge is then cut into 36 one inch square pieces of fudge by following the indentations 17 or 18 whichever may be up, it being immaterial whether the narrow face 14 or the similar face 15 is uppermost. The inside dimensions of the fudge former are selected as 6" square by /2" deep, this being the size to match the quantity of the ingredients called for in the directions on the usual box of fudge mix.

What I claim is:

A light weight open square fudge mold consisting of four interlocking elongated bars of uniform thickness of styrene having a smooth non-adhering surface, unaffected by temperatures used in the making of fudge, each bar having one long narrow face having five equi-spaced transverse indentations therein for guiding a knife in the cutting of the fudge into blocks of uniform size and thickness when the fudge in the mold has hardened to the desired consistency, and two locking slots spaced as far from the proximate indentations as the distance between indentations, said slots extending half way between the narrow faces of the bar and being of a width equal to the thickness of the bar, the space from the end of the bar to the proximate slot being greater than the width of the slot, each bar having at its opposite long narrow face guiding indentations spaced equally from the inside corners of the square mold when assembled to correspond with the indentations on said one face so that a bar may be used either up or down, and the four corners of the bars being rounded at the junctions of the ends and the narrow faces, said four bars being identical so that the fudge mold can be formed by a single die.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,501,659 Haddad July 15, 1924 2,411,857 Harriss Dec. 3, 1946 FOREIGN PATENTS 28,328 Germany Aug. 18, 1884 199,444 Germany June 15, 1908 OTHER REFERENCES Publication Teflonpage 32, Plastics, July 1946. 

